Faculty Profiles

Comparative early modern and modern drama

Seventeenth-century literature, including the Restoration; Milton; court culture; seventeenth-century drama; early modern women writers

Comparative Literature and Translation Studies; Critical and Literary Theory; Drama and Performance; Gender and Sexuality; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature

Nineteenth Century Poetry; Nineteenth Century American Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Poetry

Feminist theory, film and cinema studies; World War II and Holocaust; television and contemporary culture; theories of national identity; French cinema & culture

Psychoanalysis, Corpus Linguistics, Syntactic & Semantic Analysis, Cultural Transmission, the Novel

Twentieth-century British, American, and Anglophone fiction and poetry; genre fiction and popular literature; the sociology of literature; computational methods for literary study; Indian writing in English; modernism; world literature.

Labor studies, Marxism, anarchism, queer studies, gender and sexuality

Diasporic African literature, postcolonial book history, World Anglophone literature.

Colonial and Early American Literature; Early Modern Drama; Literature and Intellectual History; Literature and Religion; Nineteenth Century American Literature

Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, Later Medieval Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Poetry and Poetics

Early Modern Literature; Literature and Intellectual History; Shakespeare and Film; Twins and Doubles in Literature and Myth

Queer studies; affect theory; 19th-century American literature; environmental humanities; photography, film, and media studies.

World Literatures, particularly those of South Asia and South Africa, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modernity.

African American Literature; Sound Studies; Hemispheric Studies; Literature and Spirituality; Twentieth Century Literature; African Diaspora Studies

twentieth and twenty-first-century African American and Caribbean fiction and poetics, Harlem Renaissance, translation studies

Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality

African American and African Diaspora Literature, especially Poetry: Twentieth Century/Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Black Feminist Thought, Gender and Sexuality; Black Study; Visual Culture

Literature and the Other Arts; Modernist Literature; Victorian Literature

Literature and Science; Complex Systems; Cognitive Studies; Material Culture; Museum Studies; Craft

Writing Studies

Caribbean, American, Black Diaspora, Women and Gender Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, Critical Race Theory

Early Modern Literature; Literature and Science; Literature and Intellectual History; Literature and Law; Literature and Philosophy 

Victorian Literature and Culture; Victorian Poetry; Victorian Theater

Literature and Philosophy, Romantic Poetry and Poetics, Affect, Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Theory and Aesthetics of the Everyday